In australia (or at least in queensland) its 100 hours while on learners. Im only starting to build them up now and im 19. I will probably be 20 when I get my license too.

18 here. no license.

Why don't people just lie about the number of hours.

I mean, if your parents think you're ready, bam.

Considering the teen culture today, this is great news.
I had mine the day I turned 16 no hesitation.

>>20921
this. I had 50 hours to do, I think I drove about 5.

Unless you live in a city, not getting your license as soon as you can means you're poor, lazy, or have no friends to go see.

Got my license the day I could

I passed my driving test with the bare minimum, and haven't been in any wrecks. Driving tests are hardly scientific

18 year old here with no license. To be honest, there really hasn't been a need for me to get a license.
1. High school was 2 minutes away from my house; my summer job wasn't much farther.
2. My brother and I have all the same friends, and we only have 1 car, so I ride with him everywhere.
3. I'm in college right now; I can literally walk anywhere here, and they don't let freshman have cars on campus.

>>20921
My parents were fine with faking half of the hours. Its not surprising that most parents are willing to make up entries because its more of a punishment for them, have to sit and watch you drive for hours on end.

>>20990
wait, wait... you do your practice hours with your parents in america?!

holy shit. why did i have to grow up in this shithole germany. here, you have to do the hours with your driving school and it's goddamn expensive.
that's why i still don't have my license at 30, no money.

>>21008
Technically you can get your practice hours in anyone who has an unrestricted license, they don't have to be next of kin.

>>21008
Not sure about america but in australia its can be with anyone that is on an open license, and the first 10 hours of driving instructor lessons count as triple the hours.

I didn't get mine until 6 months after by 16th birthday.

Driving scared me! My dad said "It's just like a video game", and I responded "Right, but there's no fucking continue option when I die, and I don't trust the rest of the world to not suck at this". I'm pretty sure I'm not the typical case though.

It's probably just due to the fact that the internet is mainstream. You don't have to use the car to be "social" anymore. You can facebook, or chat on aim, or play Halo/MW2/WoW. It's just a sign that the world is moving online.

Didn't get my license until I was 22, or 23. Mainly because I calculated the costs, and it was more expensive to maintain a car and pay for insurance, than use a bike and public transportation. Of course, now I'm in defacto exile in Hawaii and the PT here sucks and blows.

>>20950
Or it means you've got eyesight issues or shitty roads.

Seriously, you don't want to drive if you're in permadrunk mode.

>>20990
>>20935
>>20921
Fuck, I think I had maybe 2-3 hours total, minus the driver's school.

I think 1 of those hours was a day before or the day of the test

Yeah, I got my license at 17, now 22. I drove my friends around even on my probation period. So far the worst I've done was hit a pole (in the middle of the night in a dark parking lot), got pulled over for a burned out headlight, and car impound when I was visiting a friend in another town

>>21013
>>21031

;_; i will cry delicious german tears now.

Only negative I can think of not having a license/car, in an emergency what do you do?

Imagine forgetting a paper for school at home, needing to run out to the store, or getting hurt at home and having to call an ambulance instead.

>>21085
I feel sorry for you. Having to pay to complete all those hours would be bullshit.

>>21031
In the US, I know CA at least, the person has to be 25 years old and have a valid license and you can count it as time

I can't be bothered to get a license, everything's at most one hour's walk away... and I don't buy furniture that goddamn often.

A garage space is then too expensive to rent, and outdoors parking implies getting the car torched by enrichers.

Then there's the tube at 50m from the building's front door.

I never got my license but that doesn't stop me from driving one bit.

I didn't get one till like 19 or so

Didn't matter then, don't matter now, you can ride a bike most places in the town I live well enough, saves money, less chance of wrecks too

>>21144
My friend had the best setup at college, she wouldn't even need a car

Had a Target across the street, university was at least 15 minutes walking distance, and fast food everywhere. Only problem I could see was a bank about 5 miles away, having to move over summer or if she got evicted, or if she bought new furniture

But of course she always drove her car to the stores and school

>>21155
I can imagine seeing you on COPS, most of those fucks get pulled over for not signaling or some petty shit like that and have no license, so they're fucked

didn't get mine until i was 18 (illinifag)

>>21209
ain't that the truth

probably 80% of COPS is just arresting people for driving without a license, another 10% is stolen vehicle takedowns and the rest are drunken bar fights with the very very occasional PCP psycho or guy getting arrested for jaywalking in Las Vegas

I didn't get mine until I was almost 17, my sister didn't get hers until she was 17, I know a guy who's 21 and doesn't have him yet (his mother fucking hates him because he never comes out of his room unless she's driving him to college).

>>21185
Five miles, eh? That's roughly an hour's walk. Not suitable for planned shopping, but within the range for ogling stuff in stores.

I probably have a halfdozen sizeable malls, about as many supermarkets of the largest kind a dozen or two hardware stores, and electronics stores, three bank offices and one respectable computer store.

There is mass transit, it's awesome when you go along the rail lines, but sucks when you try to go tangentially.

This news article speaks to me. I was part of this trend before most of 4chan was born, having passed on my driver's license in 1990 only to get it in 1994. Yes, I rock. Yes, I'm nerded out, both then and now.

>>20798
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I'm 20 and I still don't have one （　．_．）

If it wasn't for my little brother bragging non-stop about getting his driver's license like he had just split the atom, then I would have never got mine to shut him up.

I think this is just a bigger trend of kids not wanting to grow up and make life changes.

>>21252
My sister is 21 and doesn't have hers, though she lives in LA and uses public transportation. But of course, it takes about 1-2 to get anywhere